Weekly       eCoach

BORA Consulting - Consultancy for Entrepreneurs - Ralf Borlinghaus
contact: ralf.borlinghaus@bora-consulting.com, +41 44 58 66 157

Six weeks ago, > Weekly eCoach No 39 reported about the start of an Intercultural TeleSeminar concept, which was conducted as a pilot in Latin America in co-operation with a Swiss global player of the chemical branch.

The idea was to increase the relevance and the impact of a three days assessment center with twelve selected participants from the middle management based on the concept of Strategic Self-Management. The company wanted to see the participants working with their assessment actively like entrepreneurs do with their customers' feedback. Based on this the company expected the participants to work out their personal business strategies showing the following elements on one single piece of paper:

1. A headline should show a clear mission or target.

2. In two or three short sentences the focus of the future development efforts should be defined.

3. A SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Risks) analysis should give the framework within the mission could be fulfilled.

4. The main qualitative and quantitative milestones should be indicated.

5. Last but not least the necessary measures should be defined in order to ensure the mission's achievement.

The mission statement was meant as an offer to the company and the measures could contain elements where the support of the company is needed. The steps in between should convince the company of the strategy in order to release the requested additional resources.

I was expected to lead the managers through the strategy process by a kick-off workshop at the end of the assessment center in Sao Paulo, a TeleSeminar containing two TeleConferences and personal TeleCoaching in between. In the first TeleConference (lasting two hours with six participants maximum) the particpants presented their professional mission statements to each other, in the second their business strategies. Part of each TeleConference was a so called Talkshop, where we discussed the meaning of success and internal network strategies.  

After finishing the program the participants showed themselves well prepared to present their business strategies to their direct managers, local HR and one representative of the local Top Management.

The TeleSeminar was the result of good co-operation of the involved people in different continents and countries and the usage of state of the art communication techniques. The feedback of the participants was outstanding and so the next program starts in Bangkok early December.

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